The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don't Want To Live Any More is a book of bunnies committing suicide in various ways. Or rather, a book of mostly single image, black and white cartoons of bunnies just about to commit suicide.
Published in 2003. The cartoons are drawn by Andy Riley, who also drew the cartoons for the books DIY Dentistry And Other Alarming Adfentures, Selfish Pigs and Great Lies To Tell Small Kids. A sequel, Return of the Bunny Suicides, was published in 2004, and an omnibus; "The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides" was made available in 2007.
Tropes:
- Balloonacy:
- A bunny goes for a balloon ride...with it acting as a sandbag.
- Two bunnies float away on helium balloons...just to get impaled by airplanes.
- Bloodless Carnage: The only thing saving this book from being a horrific deathshow.
- Bullying a Dragon: Many of the bunnies' deaths come from deliberately pissing off someone or something that could easily kill them.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The bunnies often inflict some pretty horrific ends on themselves.
- Doorstopper: One bunny orders a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix online, then patiently waits under the front door's mail slot until the book arrives and crushes its skull.
- Farts on Fire: One bunny tries to kill itself with these by using pipes to redirect the fire at its head.
- Flipping the Bird: One suicide demonstrates a bunny doing this in the middle of a row of saluting Nazi soldiers.
- Gasshole: This strip.
◊ - Gassy Gastronomy: At one point, a rabbit eats nine cans of beans and then prepares to light it on fire to burn himself alive.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice - the Javelin.
- "Jaws" Attack Parody: Invoked by a bunny by tying a steak to its waist.
- Little Green Men / The Greys: A bunny kicks one of these in the crotch, leading to it being vaporized. Since the strips are in black and white, it's unclear if they are green or grey, or possibly another color.
- Make a Wish: One bunny uses a wishing well to wish for...well, you know.
- The Many Deaths of You
- No Plot? No Problem!: We are never told why the bunnies don't want to live anymore, only that they are out to kill themselves in various creative and gruesome ways.
- Off with His Head!: Some of the suicides involve decapitation, including the example under Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts.
- Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: This strip.◊
- Scary Stinging Swarm: A bunny upsets a beehive. Unlike most strips, we only get to see the aftermath.◊
- Shout-Out:
- One of the bunnies shoots spitballs at an Alien.
- Three bunnies in a robe jump on Darth Vader's lightsaber.
- One suicide has a bunny impersonate Sarah Conner, and getting killed by the Terminator.
- A bunny disguising as an alien ship.
- Then there's the one that was sprinkling pepper on the Eye of Sauron.
- Another has a bunny having tied himself to a post as well as Gollum as he tries to retrieve his ring.
- One bunny waits halfway inside the doorway of the TARDIS and ends up being half-teleported away.
- Another one sits atop the TARDIS with a noose around its neck as the Doctor runs inside to escape a Dalek.
- Another bunny does the half-teleportation trick on an Enterprise transported pad.
- Subverted Kids' Show: The style could fool someone into thinking it's a children's book. It's really not, though.
- Suicide as Comedy: Pretty much the bread and butter of the book.
- Threatening Shark:
- In one strip, people are fleeing from the beach due to a shark. Of course, this being a book of bunny suicides, one bunny happily walks towards the water with a floatie.
- Another one has a bunny reenacting the "Jaws" poster, attracting the titular shark via a steak tied to its waist.
- A third one has a bunny about to hit a shark tank with a hammer.
- Woman Scorned: A bunny puts on the movie Fatal Attraction (which contains a scene where the main character's scorned mistress kills his daughter's pet bunny as revenge) in front of a woman who's implied to have recently gone through a bad breakup (judging by the pile of used tissues, running mascara and torn-up photo).
